1925 . CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 4623
PRIVATE BILLS Al~ RESOLUTIONS fro~ Josephine E. W~burn, of Richmond, Calif.1 favoring Under clause 1 of Rule XXII, pivate bills and resolutions legislative recommendatwns of National Reserve Officers Asso were introduced and severally referred as follows; ciation; to the Committee on Military Affairs. By Mr. DO"WELL: A bill (H. R. 12410) granting a pension 3001. Also. letter from the National Council of Farmers' to Ciru·a J. Cunningham; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Cooperative. Marketing As ociations, Washington, D. C., pro By M:r. GARDNER of Indiana: A bill (H. R. 12411) grant testing. agamst any legislation which will bring cooperative ing an increase of pension to Ophelia Shoemaker ; to the Com marketi.I;g associations under jurisdiction of a governmental mittee on Invalid Pensions. board With power to license, audit, and otherwise control them; By Mr. JA.COBSTEIN: A bill (H. R. 12412) granting an in also, telegram from the California Fore t Protective Associa crease of pen ion to Alice L. Briggs ; to the Committee on tion, of San Francisco, Calif., urging passage of Senate bill Invalid Pension . 4156, to establish a forest experiment station in California· to Also, a bill (H. R. 12413) granting an increase of pension to the Committee on Agriculture. ' Elizabeth Cros ·on ; to the Committee on Pensions. 390~ Also, petition of C. C. Thomas Navy Po t, No. 244, Also, a bill (H. R. 12414) granting an increase of pension to American Legwn, of San FrancL~o, Calif., m·ging passage of Rachel Walters; to the Committee on Pen ions. McSwain re olution relative to universal d1·aft · to the Com- Also, a bill (H. R. 12415) granting an increase of pension to .mi ttee on Military Affairs. ' Caroline Whitney ; to the Committee on Pensions. 3903. Also, letter from the Oakland Chamber of Commerce, By 1\Ir. KENT: A bill (H. R. 12416) granting an increase Oakland, Calif., relative to th~ pending treaty between the / of pension to Hannah S. Link ; to the Committee on Invalid United States .and Germany; also letter from the General Pensions. Mo~ors Corporation, of New York 'city, N. Y., indorsing and By Mr. RANKIN: A bill (H. R. 12417) granting a patent urgmg passage of the Temple resolution (H. Re.. 336) · to the to W. M. l\lcLeod and Mary Pearson McLeod Hambrick; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. ' Committee on Public Lands. 3904. Also, petition of the San Francisco Chapter of the By Mr. BURDICK: Joint resolution (H ..J. Res. 372) grant ~erican InRtitute of Architects, m·ging Rupport of the King ing permission to Walter Stanley Haas, lieutenant commander, b1ll ( S. 4253) ; to the Committee on Public Buildings and United States Navy, to accept a decoration be towed upon him Grounds. by the Government of Ecuador; to the Committee on Naval 3905. By l\Ir. SITES : Petition of sundry resid~nts of Dau Affairs. phin County, Pa., proteJ ting .again. t the passage of the com pulsory Sunday observan~e bill ( S. 3218) ; to the Committee PETITIONS, ETC. on the District of Columbia. Under clause 1 of Rule XXII, petitions and papers were laid 3906. By Mr. SWING : Petition of '"'tmdry residents of Es on the Clerk's desk and referred as follows : condklo, Calif., protesting against compulsory Sunday observ 3889. By Mr. ABERNETHY: Petition of the American Le ance laws; to the Committee on the Distrid of Columbia. gion, Department of North Carolina, through its commander, 3907. By Mr. WILLL:\...MS ol: Miehigan: Petition of Edward Wade H. ~hillips, urging Congress to pass the Lineberger bill KinO' and 15 other l'esidents of Battle Creek, Mich., protesting for the retirement of emergency disabled officers of the World against the passage of the bill S. 3218, the Sunday observance War; to the Committee on World War Veterans' Legislation. bill, so called ; to the Committee on the Di trict of Columbia. 3890. Also, petition of Leon L. Daughtry Post, No. 22, Ameri 3908. By Mr. WYA ~: Petition of Sergeant P. C. Grace can Legion, Clinton, N. C., through its commander, A. S. Camp, No. 265, Sons of Yetera.n.<::, l'nited States Army, Division Bethune, favoring the passage of the bill to retire emergency of Pennsylvania, indorsing the Fuller bill (H. R. 9807); to the disabled officers of the World War; to the Committee on World Committee on Invalid Pension~ War Veterans' Legislation. 3891. By Mr. CULLEN: Petition of tbe Maritime Association of the Port of New York, faYoring Senate bill 3927 (the Butler SENATE bill), which aim to correct discrimination by placing all ports on the Atlantic seaboard on a parity so far as inland-rail rates WEDNESDAY, February ~5, 19B5 are concerned ; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. The Senate met at 11 o'clock a. m. 3892. By Mr. GRAHAM: Petition of C. V. Gregory, editor of The Chaplain, Rev. J . J. Muir, D. D., offet·ed the following Prairie Farmer, opposing amendment to apper-Ha.ugen coop prayer. erative bill to legalize operatio~ of grain marketing bill; to Gracious and ever-living God we approach Thy throne of the Committee 011 Agriculture. grace this morning thanking Thee for the mercies vouchsafed 3893. By .Mr. LEAVITT: Petition of the Poplar (.Mont.) and ~eeking from Thee further evidence of Thy care. Be with Woman's Club, urging entrance of the United States into the us constantly, 1I'e beseech of Thee, and in the varied adminis World Court on the basis of the Harding-Hughes reservations; trations of duty may there be had by us the realization that to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. wlsdom must come from Thee, that only as the Nation is ex 3894. By_ Mr. MEAD: Petition of the Maritime Association alted in righteousnes shall it truly prosper. Be very near and of the Port of New York, expressing unqualified approval of present, and guide all our deliberations to Thy glory. For S. 3927; to the Committee on Inter tate and Foreign Com Chri t's sake. Amen. merce. 3895. Also, petition of the Buffalo Chamber of Commerce The 1·eading clerk proceeded to read the Journal of the pro favoring legislation that will discontinue printing by Post Offic~ ceedings of the legislative day of Tuesday, February 17, 1925, Department of stamped envelopes with the name of sender· when, on request of Mr. GURTI.S and by unanimous consent the fm·ther reading was dispensed "ith and the Journal wa~ ap to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. ' proved. 3896. By Mr. MORROW : Petition of the Southern New Mexico Association, favoring congressional appropriations for CALL OF THE ROLL the development of Carlsbad Caverns National Monument, New Mr. CURTIS. Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a Mexico ; to the Committee on Appropriations. quorum. 389?. ~Y Mr. RAKER: Petition of the Purchasing Agents The PRESIDE1-l'T pro tempore. The clerk will call the roll Association of Los Angeles, Calif., indorsing H. R. 9629 the The principal legislative clerk called the roll, and the following reorganization bill; to the Joint Committee on Reorganiz~t1on Senators answered to their names: of Executive Departments. . Ashurst Dial Heflin Metcalf 3898. Also, petition of the American Farm Bureau Federa Ball Dill Howell Moses tion, protesting against removal of Pullman surcharge rates; Bayard Edge Johnson, Calif. Neely Bingham Edwards Johnson, Minn. Norbeck also, letter from F. Pottle, of Rescue, Calif., protesting against Borah Ernst Jo.ne , N. Mex. Norris the pas age of the antifirearms bill; to the Committee on Brookhart Fernald Jone ·,Wash. Od
~immons Stephens Wadsworth Watson by the Court of Claims, and reqmrmg an appropriation for Smith Sterling Walsh, Mass. Weller Smoot Swanson Walsh, Mont, Willis their payment-under the Navy Department, $6,426.42; under Spencer Trammell Wan·en the War Department, $1,506.84; in total amount, $7,933.26, Tlle PRESIDENT pro tempore. Eighty-three Senators have etc. ; which, with the accompanying papers, was referred to answered to the roll call. the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. MIGRATORY BIRD REFUGES JUDGMENTS REXDERED AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT BY DISTRICT COURTS (S. DOC. 213) The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair lays before the Senate a bill from the House of Representatives, which was The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a read the first time on the preceding day. communication from the President of the United States, trans The bill (H. R. 745) for the establishment of migratory mitting, in accordance with law, records of judgments ren bird refuges to furnish in perpetuity homes for migratory dered against the Government by the United States district birds, the establishment of public shooting grounds to preserve courts, and requiring an appropriation for their payment the American system of free shooting, the provision of funds under the Navy Department, $557.89; under the War Depart for establishing such areas, and the furnishing of adequate ment, $2,687.21; in total amount, $3,245.10; which, with the ac protection for migratory birds, and for other purposes, was companying papers, was referred to the Committee on Appro read the second time by its title. priations and ordered to be printed. · The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair ought to state JENS SAMUEL E~ Al\TJ> B. OLSEN V, THE UJ\Tl'ED STATES (S. DOC. 214) that when the bill was laid before the Senate previously the The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a com Senator from Missouri [Mr. REED] suggested that it be re munication from the President of the United States, trans ferred to the Committee on the Judiciary. The Chair is of the mitting, in accordance with law, a record of judgment rendered opinion that the bill ought to be referred to the Committee on against the Government by the United States District Court Agriculture and Forestry, and will so refer it unless the for the Southern District of New York (under the United Senate otherwise directs. States Shipping Board), being a final decree or mandate in Mr. KING. Mr. President, the Senator from Missouri [Mr. favor of Jens Samuelsen and B. Olsen, owners of the Nor REED] is in committee and has not yet come into the Chamber. wegian bark Thel/va.) against the United States of America He is very much interested in the disposition that is to be (steamship F. J. Luckenbach), in amount of judgment $154,- made of the bill just laid before the Senate, and I suggest 837.96, together with interest thereon at 5 per cent per annum that the Chair 1·etain it upon his desk for a moment until the from February 5, 1923, until date of judgment and costs, SGnator from Missouri comes into the Chamber. $15,064.47, in total amount $169,902.43, together with further The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair will retain the interest at 5 per cent per annum from date of entry, etc., and bill until the Senator from Missouri comes in, if he comes in requiring an appropriation for its settlement, which, with the before the conclusion of morning business. accompanying papers, was referred to the Committee on Ap Mr. SMI'J.1H. Mr. President, may I ask one question before propriations and ordered to be printed. the Chair takes that action? Is not the Committee on Agricul ture and Forestry the proper committee to which reference of CLAIMS ALLOWED BY GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE ( S. DOC. NO. 212) a bill of this character should be made? The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a com The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair is of opinion that mtmication from the President of the United States, transmit the bill ought to be referred to the Committee on Agriculture ting, in compliance with law, schedules of claims in amount and Forestry and has so annotmced. $95,954.71 allowed by the General Accounting Office, as cov Mr. REED of Missouri entered the Chamber. ered by certificates of ~ettlement, etc., under appropriations The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Missouri the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the has just entered the Chamber, howeYer. surplus fund under the provisions of law, and for the service Mr. BROOKHART. I move that the bill be referred to the of the seyeral departments and independent offices, which, with Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. the accompanying papers, was referred to the Committee on The PRESIDENT pro tempore. 'l'he Senator from Iowa Appropriations and ordered to be printed. moV@s that the bill be referred to the Committee on Agricul MESSAGE" FROM THE HOUSE ture and Foresti·y. Mr. REED of Missouri. The motion is debatable, of course? A message from the House, by l\lr. Chaffee-, one of its clerks, 1\It'. BROOKHART. I think it is not debatable in the morn announced that the Hou~e had passed without amendment the ing hour. following bills and a joint resolution of the Senate: The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is not de S. 970. An act for the relief of the De Kimpke Construction batable at this time. Co., of West Hoboken, N. J.; Mr. REED of Missouri. If the Senator from Iowa wants S. 1016. An act for the relief of Augusta Reiter; to take that advantage he may do so. The bill came from S.1633. An act fo_r the relief of James F. Jenkins; the House during his absence. I asked to have it sent to the S. 1763. An act to validate certain payments made to George Committee on the Judiciary and was informed that the Sena 1\I. Apple and to authorize the General Accounting Office to tor from Iowa, who was absent at the time, wanted the bill allow credit to certain dislJursing officers for payments of to lie on the table until he could be here. I accordingly had salaries made on properly certified and approved vouchers; it laid on the table and held for him. If he wants to cut me S. 2714. An act for the relief of John F. Malley; out of the right to say anything about the reference of the bill, S. 2i74. An act for the relief of G. Ferlita; he i · at perfect liberty to do so; but if he does so, I promise S. 2793. An act for relief of estate of Anne C. Shymer; him that his bill will not pas at this ses ion. S. 2992. An act for the relief of the Berwind-White Coal The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is upon the Mining Co. ; motion of the Senator from Iowa. S. 3379. An act providing for the sale and disposal of public Mr. BROOKHART. Mr. President-- lands within the area heretofore surveyed as Boulder Lake, in The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The motion is not debata the State of Wisconsin; and ble. S. J. Res.125. Joint resolution granting permission to Fred Mr. BROOKHART. I ask unanimous consent that we hear F. Roger , commander, United States Navy, to accept certain the Senator from Missouri before the vote is taken. decorations lJestowed upon him by the Venezuelan Government. Mr. REED of 1\Iissom·i. Oh, no; go ahead. The me ~ sage also announced that the Hou. e had pas ed the The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Iowa following bills of the Senate, eYerally with an amendment, in asks unanimous con~ent to debate the motion. Is there ob which it requested the concurrence of the Senate: jection? S. 827. An act for the relief of Je ie l\1. 'Vhite; 1\fr. SMOOT. I object. S. 1237. An net for the relief of the settlers and claimants to The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Objection is made and the · section 16, lands in the L'Anse and Vieux Desert Indian lleser4 question is upon agreeing to the motion of the Senator from 'ration, in 1\lichigan, and for other purposes; Iowa [Mr. BROOKHART] that the bill be referred to the Com S. 1323. An act for the relief of Eugene K. Stoudemire; mittee on Agriculture and Forestry. .S. 1573. An act for the relief of Samuel S. 'Vea.ver; The motion was agreed to. S. 1725. An act for the relief of Rubie l\L l\lo ley; S. 2503. An act for the relief of W. H. King; and JUDGMENTS RENDERED BY THE COURT OF CLAIMS (S. DOC. NO. 211) S. 2£>34. An act for the relief of J. E. Saucier. The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate a com- The message further announced that the House had pas8ed • munication from the Pre ·ident of the United States, trans the following bills of the Senate, each with amendments, in plitting, in compliance with law, a list of judgments rendered which it requested the concurrence of the Senate: 1925 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 4625
S. 2527 . .An -act for the payment of claims for damages to and H. R.11009. An act for the relief <>f James T. Conner; los of pri¥ate property incident to the h·aining, practice, op H. R. 11425. An act to correct the military record of Sylres emtion, or maintenance of the Army; and ter De Forest ; S. 2879. An act for the relief of James E. Jenkins. H. R. 12300. An act to amend section 281 of the revenue act The mei age also announced that the .House had insisted upon of 1924 ; and its amendments to the bill ( S. 4207) to provide for the regula H. J. Res. 226. A joint resolution for the relief of special dis tion of motor-\·ehiele traffic in the District of Oolumbia, in bursing agents of the Alaskan Engineering Con1mi sion, au crea ·e the number of judges of the police court, and for other thorizing the payment of certain claims, and for other purposes, purposes, disagreed tcr by the Senate; agreed to the conference affecting the management of the Alaska Railroad. il."e<}Ue ted by the Senate on the disagreeing votes of the two The message further announced that the House had con Houses thereon, and that :Mr. ZliiLMAN, Mr. GmsoN, :Mr. R~. TH curred in Senate Concurrent Resolution 35, to correct an error BONE, l\Ir. BLANTON, and l\Ir. GILBERT were appointed managers in the reenrollment of the bill ( S. 3760) to amend in certain on the part of the House at the conference. . particulars the national defense act of June 3, 1916, . as The message further announced that the House further in amended, .and for. other purposes. . isted upon its disagreement to the amendments of the Senate Xos. 1, 28, and 46 to the bill (H. R. 12033) making appropria ENROLLED BILLS SIGNED tions for the government of the Distrid of Columbia and other The message also further announced that the Speaker of the activities chargeable in whole or in part again t the revenues House had affixed his signature to the following enrolled bills, of sucl.1. District for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, and and they were thereupon signed by the President pro tempore: fo.r other pnrpo~es; agreed to the further conference requested S. 3765. An act to authorize a :five-year building program by the Senate, and that 1\lr. DAVIS of Minnesota, ~1r. FuNK, for the public-schools system of the Dish·ict of Columbia which and :Mr. AYREs were appointed managers on the part of the shall provide school buildings adequate in size and facilities to House at the further conference. make possible an efficient system of public education in the The message informed the Senate that the House had con District of Columbia ; and sidered the request of the Senate for the return of the bill S. 4045. An act granting the consent of Congress to W. D. (H. R. 5084) to amend the national defen e act approved June Comer and Wesley Vandercook to construct a bridge across 13, 1916, as amended by the act of June 4, 1920, relating _to re the Columbia River between Longview, Wash., and Rainier, tirement, and for other purposes, and that the unarumous Oreg. con.... en.t neces..,ary to comply with the request at that time was PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS refused. The message also announced that the House had passed bills Mr. W ALSIT of Montana presented the following memorial and a joint resolution of the following titles, in which it re (}[ the Hou e of .Representatives of the Legislative Assembly qu-ested the -concurrence of the Senate : of the State of Montana, which was referred to the Committee H. R. 811. An act for the relief of Frederick Mar hall ; on Post Offices and Post Roads : H. R. 912. ..A..n act for the relief of John H. Barrett and Ada UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, H. Barrett; States of Mo?tta:tla, as: H. R. 919. An uct for the Telief of Frank Norton; I, C. T. Stewart, secretary of state of the State of Montana, do H. R. 1226. An a.ct for the relief of George Penrod ; hereby certify that the following- is a true and correct copy of IDl H. R. 1307. An act for the relief of William A, Gla son ; aet entitled a memorial to the Senate of the United States, urging H. R. 1445. An act to change the retired status of Chief Pay the immediate enactment of pending legi Iation to provide adequate Clerk R. E. Ames, United States Navy, ret·red; compensati-on for postal employees, enacted by the Ninetee"Dtb -seSsion H. R. 1U79. An act authorizing the disposition of certain of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Montana, an Resolved by the m.embers of the House of Representatives of the Whereas it is vitally important to assure tq agriculture, tbe baste · Nineteenth Legislative Assembly of the State of Montana, That we do American industry, a fair share of the national wealth by promot· hereby memorialize the Senate of the United States to take steps ing parity for farming with industry and labor; and to prevent I at once to concur in House bill No. 11444, in order that the present recurrence of the disastrous spread between farm and other prices 1 ·session may see this muter fully accomplished and this great wrong that is fatal to general or permanent national prosperity-: Therefore, 1 ' righted; and be it further be it Resolved, That a copy of this memorial be· forwarded immediately Resolvea, by the legislatiL'e assembly, That it urges the enactment by the secretary of state to the President of the United States, by the Congress of the United States, of legislation creating a 1 to the President of the Senate of the United States, and to our Senators farmers' export corporation to dispose of the· normal surplus of basic r_and Representatives in Congress. ~arm commodities at the expense of all the producers of such crop, I CRAS. BRICKER, m order that tariff schedules may be made effective in maintaining 1 Speaket· oj the House. an American price for agriculture in our own domestic markets ; ! I hereby certify that the within memorial originated in the house. be it further H. J. F.A.UST, Gh4ef Olerk. Resolved, That a copy of this memorial be forwarded to the j Senate and House of Representatives of the United States and to This bill was received by the Governor this 18th day of February, 1 1925. each of the Senators and Representatives from Montana in Congress. J. E. ERICKSON, M. C. BRICKER, Govenwr. Speaker of the IIottse. By WILL AIDE..'<, W. S. McConMACK, P1'ivate Secretary. Prestdent of the Senate. :Approved February 19, 1925. I hereby certify that the within memorial originated in the house. J. E. ERICKSON, Governor. H. J. FAUST, Chief Clerk. Mr: WALSH of Montana also presented the following memo This bill was received by the governor this 13th day of February, • rial of the House of Representatives of the Legislative Assem 1925. bly of the State of Montana, which was referred to the Com J. E. ERICKSON, Governor. mittee on Interstate Commerce : By WILL AIKEN, Private Sec-retary. House memorial 3 {introduced by M:r. Burns) to Congress of the United Approved February 13, 1925. States, asking 1t to amend the interstate commerce act so as to pro J. E. ERICKSOS, Governot•. tect shipp~rs and livestock in their conh·acts with. carriers Mr. WALSH of Montana also presented the following joint Whereas the interstate commerce act as amended bas been con memorial of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Montana, strued bY the United States Supreme Court to invalidate any contract which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations: entered into between a carrier and a shipper for the furnishing of cars to a shipper at a specified time ; House joint memot·ial 2 (introduced by McCarty) to the Senate of th~ Whereas the United States Supreme Court has construed such a United States of America in Congress assembled that immediate contract to be a preference and to constitute a special advantage to a action be taken leading to the participation of the United l::ltates in the Permanent Court of International Justice shipper, and therefor~ invalid ; and Whereas shippers of livestock are now without any remedy for the To the honorable Senate of the U11ited States of Amet"ica: violation of a carrier of such a contract: Therefore be it Your memorialists, tbe members of the Nineteenth Legislative As· Resolved by the House ,of Representatives of the Nineteen-th Legis sembly of the State of Montana, the Senate and House eoncurring, lative Assembly of the State of Montana~ That it is the sense of the respectfully represent: That- house of representatives of this legislature that the Congress of the Whereas we believe that the participation of the United States in United States should remedy this situation by the enactment of proper the Permanent Court of International Justice to be the first step legislation to remedy the same; be it further toward the outlawry of war and of that fuller and more far-reaching Reso~v9dt, That a copy of this memorial be forwarded to the Senate international cooperation which shall end war: Therefore, be 1t and the Honse of Representatives of the United States and to each of Resolt·ed (by the legislative asse·ntbZy), That it unreservedly favor.s the Senators and Representatives from Montana. immediate action being taken leading to the participation of the United M. C. BRICKER, States of America in the Permanent Court of International Justice, in Speaker of the House. accordance with the Harding-Hughes plan ; and be it further Resolt:ed, That a copy of this memorial be forwarded to the Senate 1 Mr. WALSH of Montana also presented the following joint of the United States and to each of the Senators from Montana in ' memorial of the Legi~lative Assembly of the State of Montana, Congress. which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture and M. C. BRICKER, Forestry: Speaker of the Hottae. House joint memorial 3, introduced by Hoffman and Hanson, to the W. S. McCoRMACK, Congress ot the United States of America to enact legislation to President oj t11e Senate. promote equality for agriculture under the American p.rotective I hereby certify that the within memorial originated in the bouse. : system in the case of those crops of which a normal surplus above H. J. FAUST, Chief Clerl". domestic requirement is produced This bill was received by the governor this 13th day of February,1 To the honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the United 1925. States of America: J. E. ERICKso~. Governor. Your memorialists, the members of the Nineteenth Legislative By. WILL AIKEN, Private Secretayy, Assembly of the State of Montana, the senate and house concurring Approved February 13, 1925. respectfully represent that: J. E. ERICKSON, Governor. Whereas the United States has established and maintains by law a system of protection which industry and labor make effective Mr. BORAH presented the following joint memorial of the through their organization, and through c<>ntrolled production and Legislature of the State of Idaho, which was referred to the supply; and Committee on Agriculture and Forestry : -Whereas the entire land and agricultural policy of the United STATE OF IDAHO, States has been aimed to secure maximum agricultural production, DEPAUTME~T OF STATE. with a result that there is produced annually a normal surplus for I, F. A. Jeter, secretary of state of the State of Idaho, do hereby 1 eJ::port of fundamental crops ; and it is physically impossible for certify that the annexed is a full, true, and complete transcript of agriculture to forecast or accurately control production, thus eliminat house joint memorial No. 7, by McBirney and Magleby, adopted by the ing the surplus above domestic needs; and Eighteenth Session of the Idaho Legislature, which was filed in this I Whereas the sale of such normal surplus in the world market office on the 19th day of February, A. D. 1925, and admitted to record. establishes the domestic price at world levels, making inoperative In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the taritr schedules intended to protect an American price for that great seal of the State. Done at Boise City, the capital of Idaho, portion of the crop consumed at home; and this 20th day of February, in the year o.f our L:>rd 1925, and of the Whereas the present improved price of some of the products of Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and the farm is due to world shortages, and does not permanently remove forty-ninth .. the disparity between the rewards of agriculture and of industry [SEAL.] F. A. JETER, • and lubor under our protective system; and Sec-retat·y of State. 1925 CONGRESSION.._t\._L RECORD-SEN... t\TE 4627. IN THE IIOt:SE OF REPRESEXTATIVES. valuable land, afrordlllg homes and employment for a large number of Joint memorial 7 (by ?tlcBirne:r and Magleby) to the Senate and . Hom~ e . people, and will, by l'eason of impounding works, flood the present of Representati\'es of the United. States of Amerira and to the rapidiJ and remoTe one of the greatest obstructions to the nangatlon Senators and Representati•es from the State of Idaho. in Congress of the Columbia River; and a sembled Whereas the industry and pro perity of the three ~orthwe t States Your memorialists, the Legislature of the State of Idaho, respectfully above named \\ill be tremendously increased and the whole Nation will represent that- be benefited by such development, and there is no way to procure the Whereas under existing laws producers. of horticultmal and agricul· same save by the aid or the "United States Go>ernment: Therefore be it tural products haye no adequate remedy to protect them against Resoll·ea by the senate (tile house of representatives concurring) , breach of confidence or contract committed by com.mi~>sion merchants That the Senators and Members of Congress from the State of Idaho and brokers engaged in buying and selling . uch products, hanllled or be, and they are hereby, memorialized to make tbe greatest possible to be handled in inter tate commerce: ~ow therefore be it effort to secure Federal recognition of the said Umatilla Rapid~ Resolt·ed, That we, your memorialists, respectfully request ana rec· project and to bring about the early de>elopment of the same, and ommend that Congress enact a law requiring commission merchants that they at all times lay stress upon the importance of the said and brokers engaged in buying and. selllilg horticultural and agricul· project te the entire Nation, and that the said Senat(}rs and Members tm-a.I products, handled er to be handled in interstate commerce, to of Congress hall unite, so far as they may aeem advisable, with tha procure a licen e and give a bond for the faithful' discharge of their Senators and Members of Congress from the bordering States of Wash duties and for the faithful performance of their contracts as such ington and Oregon to the end that joint action may be had in behalf of .commis ion merchants and brokers, said license to. be subject to can· the early construction ef the said project; be it further cellation for any willful breach of trust by such commission ~rchant Resol t:.ed, That the secretary of state be, and be is hereby, directed or broker, and said bond to be so conditioned as to protect the pro.· to transmit by mail a copy of this memorial to the above-named Sena ducers and con ignors of such products in the eyent of breach of his tors and Members of Congress. trust by the commission merchant or ·broker. This senate joint memorial passed the senate on the 4th day of SEc. 2. The secretary of state is ben~by instructed to forward copies February, 1925. of thi. memorial to the Senate and IIou e of Representatins of the H. C. BALDRIDGE, United States, and to the Senators and Representatins ft·om Idaho. President of the Benatr. This memorial passed the bouse on the 12th day of February, 19:!5. This sPnate joint melll'Orial passed the house of representatives on the lOth day of Februa1·y, Ul25. w. D. GILLIS, Spcake1· of the House of R epresentatives. W. D. GILLIS, This memorial passed the senate on the 17th day of Fei.Jruary, 192:1. Speaker of th~ House of Rept·eseJ~tati -,; es. ll. C. BALDRIDGE, I hereby certify that the within senate joint memorial No. 4 origi nated in the Senate during the Eighteenth Session of the Legislature of P1·esident of the Senate. the S.ta te of Idaho. I hen~ by certify that the within h~use joint memorial No. 7 origi A. L. FLETCHER, J1ated in the IIou e of RPpresentatives durin·g the Eighteenth Se~sion of Secretary of the Senate. the ~gislature of the State of Idaho. Mr. NORBECK. :Ur. President, I submit herewith copies of C. .A. BOTTOLFSI:~, . two resolutions passed by the South Dakota State Legislature, Chief Clerk of tlle House of Repr~ s entati~:es. now in session, ·.vhich I ask be printed in the RECORD and re Mr. BORAH also presented the following joint memorial· of ferred to the appropriate committees of the Senate. the Legislature of the State of Idaho, which was referred to The resolutions were referred as follows: the Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation: To the Committee on Commerce: STATE o:r IDAHO, · Senate concurrent resolution. (Introduced by Mr. Amsden) DErARTUEXT OF STATE. Whereas' information has reached the Legislature of the State of I, F. A. Jeter, secretary of state of the State of Idaho, do hereby Soutll Dakota that an exces ive amount of water is being diverted certify that the annexed is a full, true, and complete transcript of from the Great Lakes through the sanitary drainage canal of the city .·enate joint· memorial No. 4, by Richmond, adopted by the Eighteenth of Chicago and fa1· in excess. of the needs for a proper disposal of SPssion of the Legislature of the State of Idaho, which was filed in this sewage of such city, which is reported to be fast diminishing the stage office on the 13th .day of February, A. D. 19.::?5, and admitted to record. of water in the Grest Lakes and which may lower the stage of water In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the sufficiently to interfere with the feasibility of a Great Lakes water• great seal of the State. Done at Boise City, the Capital of Idaho, this way, in which the State of South Dakota is much interested: There 14th day of February, in the year of our Lord 1925 and of the inde fore be it pendence of the United StatE's of America the one hunured and fortl·· Resolved by the Senate of the State of South Dakota (the House of Jlinth. Representatives c.oncu1-r·itlg), That the Representatives in Congress [SEAL.] F. A. JETER, Secretary of State. from South Dakota take cognizance of · the facts as above stated, it such facts are true, and to use their best efforts to correct the abuse LEGISLATGRE OF THE STATE OF. IDAHO, of such privilege that the interest of the State of South Dakota and EIGHTEEXTH SESSIO~. the great agricultural Northwest may be conserved; be it further Senate joint memorial 4 (by Richmond) Resolved, That copies of this resolution be prepared by the secretary of the senate and mailed to each Member of Congress from Soutb To the Ho11. Willian ~ Fl. Boralt, the Hon. Frank R. Goodi1lfl, Cnited Dakota and to the chief clerk of the Senate and chief clerk of the States Setwtors from tl!e State of Idaho, ana the Hon. Addfson T. Assembly of the State of Wisconsin, and that a copy be filed with the ~mith, tlle Hon. Btu·toJ~ L. French, .Mcmbet·s of Congress from the State of lclallo: Govel'nor of this State. A. c. FORNEY, We, your memoriali the Senate and Honse of Representatives of t , President of tlle Senate. the State of Iuaho, in regular session assembled, respectfully represent W. ,J. MATSO~, . that- ~Jecretary of the Senate. Whereas it is of utmost lmpot·tance to the people of the entire Nation Cn.as. s. McDoNALD, that the tremendous water power potentially existing in Idaho streams Speaker of the House. should be developed by the installation of hydroelechic plants; and WRIGHT TARBELL, Whereas money has been heretofore appropriated by the State of Chief Olerk of the House. Oregon for the investigation of hydroelectric possibilities at the Uma tilla Rapids in the Columbia River, and the Congre s of the United To the Committee on Interstate Commerce: States has likewise made appropriations for like investigations; and A concurrent resolution Whereas the Reclamation Se1·vice of the linited States is just now Whereas it is impossible to identify virgin wool from shoddy and concluding an extensive investigation of the proposed hydroelectric other wool content after the same is woven Into fabric; and development at Umatilla Rapids and the possibility of extensive recla Whereas unregulated trade names and general descriptive terms mation of arid lands in the vicinity of said rapids, and by such investi used in designating woolen goods cause misunderstanding leading gation has found the Installation of hydroelectric works to be entirely to grave financial loss, both to the producer of wool and the co;fisumer feasible from an engineering standpoint; and of woolen goods ; and Whereas the development of a reclamation and hydroelectric proj~ct Whereas pt·oper labeling of woolen fabric could be regulated and at the said point will provide cheap power for the people and industry supervised at the time of manufacture without entailing undue expense of the State of Oregon, as well as those of Washi~gton and Idaho, and or trouble to the manufacturer or to the Government for administra will mean the reclamation of a 1ast territory of potentially fertile and tion; and LXVI--293 ' 4628 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE Wbereas the enactment of an adequate truth in fabric act by the He also, from the Committee on Claims, to which was re Congress of the United States would be fair and just to the producer ferred the bill {H. R. 1569) for the relief of Andrew A. Gieriet of wool, to the manufacturer, distributer, and to the c<>naumer of reported it without amendment and submitted a report (No: woolen goods : Therefore be it 1223) thereon. Resolred by the Hous~ of Representatives of the Stat~ of Botdh Mr. W .ALSH of Montana, from the Committee on the Judi Dak-ota (tlle Senate concurring), That the Congress of the United ciary, to which was referred the bill (H. R. 5265) to authorize States be, and it is hereby, respectifully memorialized, r~ested, and the appointment of stenographers in the courts of the United urged to enact adequate truth-ln-fabrlc legislation at the earliel!t pos States and to fix their duties and compensation, reported it sible moment, requiring the labeling at the time of manufacture of without amendment. fabrics wo>en from wool in plain, unambiguous, and clearly definoo term , showing the nature and percentages of woolen content. COTTON FUTURES CONTRACTS That the chief clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of :Mr. Sl\fiTH. Mr. President, I have here several communi South Dakota be, and be is hereby, instructed and directed to trans~ cations practically in the form of petitions. It is sufficient for mit copies of this concurrent resolution to the Secretary of the Senate me to call .attention to the character of them. It is alleged of the United States, to the Chief Clerk of the Rouse of Representa that the New York Cotton Exchange is holding cotton stocks tives of the United States, to the ehairmlln of the Committee on In which cotton does not come up to the standard required by the terstate Commerce of the Senate of the United States, to the chairman cotton futures act I have, among others, a letter from a party 4f the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce of the House in New Orleans. This correspondent of mine in New Orleans of Representatives of the United States, and to each United States says that "although the New Orleans contract market is ac Senator and Congressman from the State of South Dakota. tually higher in New York there are thou ands of bales of CHAS. S. McDONALD, cotton being shipped from here every week to New York to Speaker of. the House. depress the contract market." He claims that the staple of Attest: this cotton is not as long as that required under the cotton WRIGHT TARBELL, Chief Clerl{.. futures act, that it is shy of the necessary length, and that A. C. FoRNEY, other qualities make it nontenderable. I ha\e also a letter President of the Senate. from the president of the .American Cotton .Association alleging Attest: that there are perhaps 150,000. bales of specificated cotton in W. J. MATSON, the warehouses to be tendered on, perhaps, March contracts 8eoietary of tlle Senat~. which are of such character that the mills and the purchasing ~Ir. FERRIS presented memorials of sundry citizens of St. public do not care to stop the contracts and take up the cotton. Charles, Cadillac, Hesperia, Grand Ledge, and Berrien Springs, Under the law the Agricultural Department is charged with all in the State of ?lfichigan, remonstrating against the passage examining this cotton, sampling and stabilizing it, and thereby of the so-called compuh;ory Sunday observance bill fo1· the protecting th~ purchaser Qf contracts from the delivery of such District, which were referred to the Committee on the Dis cotton as does not come under the regulations of the law. trict of Columbia. I ha\e asked the Agricultural Department about this stock He also presented resolutions of General Nelson .A. 1\Iil~s of cotton, which is alleged from three very reputable sources to Camp, No. 1, United Spanish War Veterans, Department of the be not such cotton as the law contemplated should be delivered. Di trict of Columbia, of Washlngton, D. 0., favoring the pas I want to take this occasion to call the attention of the holders sage of the s~alled Bursum bill, being Senate bill 3314, grant of March contract · to the facts stated, to ask them to take up ing increased pensions to veterans of the Civil, Mexican, In the cotton, and after taking it up notify me or the .Agricul dian, and Spanish Wars and their widows, and certain maimed tural Department and have them then grade and sample cotton soldiel"S, etc., which were referred to the Committee on Pen so as to prove whether or not these allegations are true. sions. · The cotton futures act was passed because it was shown by Mr. Herbert Knox Smith, the agent of the department, that He ~lso presented the petitions, signed by sundry members of the Young Women's Christian Association of Lansing, and of there was a practice of taking undesirable cotton and putting sundry citizens of Mount Pleasant, Mich., praying for the im it into warehouses and tendering it on contracts. We have mediate entrance of the United States into the World Court amended that law so as to provide that only certain grades under the terms of the so-called Harding-Hughes plan, which may be tendered, all of which can be spun readily by the mills were referred to the Committee ()n li'oreign Relations. of the country, and if there be any infraction of that law it :\11·. MEANS presented a Iletition of sundry citizens of Denver will necessarily bring about the very condition to pre\ent and vicinity, in the State of Colorado, praying for the pas age which the cotton futures act was passed. of Senate bill 56, for the allowance of -certain claims for in Mr. President, I am going to ask the privilege of having demnity fo·r spoliations by the French prior to July 31, 1801, certain letters which I hold in my band, or a part of them, as reported by the Court of Claims, which was refen·ed to the which I shall indicate, printed in the REcono, so that the public Committee .on Claims. may be notified that these March contracts which they have taken up will be sampled by the Agricultural Department in ~Ir. WILLIS presented a petition signed by sundry members and friends of the Simpson Methodist Episcopal Church, of order to ascertain the truth. Cleveland, Ohio, praying for the passage of the so-called Cram The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there objection? The ton bill, being House bill 6645, to amend the national prohibi Chair hears none, and it is so ordered. tion act, to provide for a bureau of prohibition in the Treasury The matter referred to is as follows: Department, and to define its powers and duties, etc., which NEW ORLEL""'S, LA., February 19, 1925. wai:) referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Hon. Senator E. D. SMITH, REPOR'fS OF COMMITTEES WaBhington, D. 0. Mr. MEANS, from the Committee on the Judiciary, to which DEAR SIR: Knowing that you have the interest ot the cotton growers was referred the bill (H. R. 1468) to increase the salary of the at heart, I am writing to call your attention to the gross manipula warden of tbe United States penitentiary at McNeil Island tion going on in the New York future market, which is costing the 'Vash., reported it without amendment and submitted a report South millions of dollars. (No. 1220) thereon. Although the New Orleans contract market ls actually higher than Mr. GERRY, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, to which in New York, there are thousands of bales of cotton being shipped -w:as referred the bill (H. R. 1446) for the relief of Charles W. from here every week to New York to depress the contract market Gibson, alias Charles J. McGibb, reported it l\'ith an amend there. ment and submitted a report (NQ. 1221) thereon. This cotton is all shorter in staple than the New Orleans or New :.\Ir. CAPPER, from the Committee on Claims, to which was York contract calls for, and how it gets by the Government classers, I w1ll leave to you. referred the bill ( S. 3~44) for the relief of Delaware River Towing Line, reported it without amendment and submitted a The most of this cotton being shipped !rom here has been gone over report (No. 1222) thereon. by local classers as passed on as %.-inch cotton, while the Government Mr. JOHNSON of Minnesota., from the Committee on Agri classers have allowed it go as %-inch cotton, which is minimum con culture and Forestry, to which was referred the bill (H. R. tract length. 745) for the establishment of migratory-bird refuges to furnish This short-staple cotton is not wanted by tbe mills, which 1s why the in perpetuity homes for migratory birds, the establishment of March contract in New York is selling to-day lower than the price of publie shooting grounds to preserve the .American SYstem of spot cotton is quoted in the South. Some of the largest spot firms free shooting, the provision of funds for establishing such have kept an enormous stock of this short cotton in New York all areas, and the furnishing of adequate protection for migratory season at great expense in order to keep the contract market de birds, and for other purposes, reported it without ~~endme!!t! pressed, so as to buy the farmers' cotton in the South at a low price. 1925 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-BE~ _._~TE 4629 This manipulation in the New York market has undoubtedly cost the {Second wire) farmers hundreds of millions of dollars this season. "Spot situation in South very bnllish. Heavy spot df'nwncl fi'OID I suggest that prompt steps be taken to investigate this matter and Europe and eastern and southern mills. Spots in South selling at price have the New York stock reclassed. If this is done, most of this of March, New York, for middling ordinary staple. One-inch .-taple cotton will be found to be short of contract length. As the matter bringing 1 cent premium. March New York contracts are five to six stands now, all of these shippers know about this New York stock dollars below what they can be replaced in ~outh." being punk stock and nobody will take it up on contract. The understanding in the u·ade is that the Smith-Lever l.Ji!l, ot This is a matter most vital to the interest of the cotton growers, which you were one of the author~, wa. drawn and passed by Congres~ and I know you will be glad to have your attention caned to it. tor the purpose of preventing the accumulation of undesirable gmtl~ ------. of cotton in New York for the purpose of tendering on contracts from month to month because of the deprf'sfiing effect on prices of such prac· NEW YORK, N. Y., F'ebnwry ZZ, 19i.fi. tice, and that it was made the duty of the Sec1·e.tary of .Agriculture to Hon. E. D. SmTH, see to it that this practice, which was discontinued for a. long tim6 TVas1lingto11, D. 0. after the passage of this bill, wns not renewed. DEAU SENATOR: I find on my arrival here that the tremendous stock It seems to mt>, therefore, that you can start something whieh will of cotton, which has been and is being maintained here by a few big in 'the en CJulirman GnEEN is outspo.ken in his opposition to the flexible provi Margaret W. Gilfry, widow of IIenry H. Gilfry, late a clerk in the sions. as is made clear in different interviews which he bas given out. office of the Secretary of the Senate, a sum equal to one year's com We believe that many of those who originally favored the provisions pensation at the rate he was receiving by law at the time of his ha:ve experienced a change of heart .and now see that they should be death, said sum to be considered inclusive of funeral expenses and all eliminated. other allowances. There is no avoiding the fact that it was a mistake to try to enact HEAJUNGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDING!S AND GROUNDS an original tariff law at the time the present one was enacted. Condi tions in other countries were in too chaotic a state, not to mention Mr. KEYES. From the Committee to Audit and Control the unsettled conditions in this country, to permit of sufficient information Contingent Expenses of the Senate I report back favorably upon \Vhich to base a wholly consistent tariff act. That was why it with an amendment Senate Resolution 335, authorizing the was po sible to secure the interpolation of the flexible tariff provisions Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds to hold hearings. into the bill. How much better if Congress had reenacted the Payne I ask unanimous consent for the immediate consideration of lldrich or the Dingley tariff as an emergency measure and walt for the resolution. affairs to become more nearly settled. That was the proposition There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider nd~ocated by the American Protective Tarifl League and favored by the resolution ( S. Res. 335) which had been submitted by Mr. many of tho most prominent Members of Congress. It is not necessary FERNALD on the 10th instant. to discuss the reasons why that plan was not finally adopted. The amendment was, on page 1, line 3, after the word But it is evident that the time has come to do away with the flexible " Sixty-eighth," to strike out the words " and Sixty-ninth Con tariff. If it had any good reason for e:ristence at the time it was gresses " and to insert the word " Congres ," so as to make the adopted, those reasons haTe now ceased to exist. The Cpnstitution pro re. olution read: vidr:; that Con~ress shall provide for the raising of revenue and that Resolved, That the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds or all bills for that purpose shall originate in the lower House. There is any subcommittee thereof be, and is hereby, authorized during thB no provision in tl1e Constitution for the delegation of this power. But Sixty-eighth Congress to send for persons, books, and papers, to ad we need not consider this phase of the subject at the present time, for minister oaths, and to employ a. stenographer at a cost not exceeding the unsettled foreign conditions which existed in 1921 and 1922 have 25 cents per 100 words to report such hearings as may be had in been clarified to a large extent. At least we now know what competi connection with any subject which may be before said committee, the tion we must meet from Germany and the other countries of central expenses thereof to be paid out of the contingent fund of the Senate; Europe, and it is a foregone conclusion that the tari.tf will be revised and that the committee or any s1:bcommittee thereof may sit during the by Congr~ss during the life of the present administration. Hence there sessions, recesses, or adjourned intervals of the Senate. is no need to keep business unsettled by continuing the very flexible The amendment was agreed to. proYi ions as a part of our tariff law. The resolution, as amended, was agreed to. One thing has become very clear to all, namely, that the claim made by the proponents of the flexible taritr thut rates of duty could be HEARINGS BEFORE MILITARY .AFFAIRS COMMITTEES expcditionsly revised under its provisions bas no basis in fact. As Mt·. KEYES. From the Committee to Audit and Control im·estigations must be made both in this country and abroad in order the Contingent Expenses of the Senate I report back favorably to carry out the provisions as written in tbe law, it is obvious that with au amendment Senate Conc.urrent Resolution 30. I ask they can not be expeditiously condneted. It has been found, too, that unanimous con&ent for the present consideration of the re o for{'ign nations resent the demand made by rt:prt>sentatives of the lution. Tariff' Corrimisston for access to the books of foreign producers in order There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider that production cnsta may be ascertnined for the benefit of American the re olution ( S. Con. Res. 30) whi<:h had been submitted by competitors, for that is what it amounts to in the final analy is. All .Mr. W ...wswoRTH on the 18th instant. othPr considerations aside, it looks a great deal like forcing a w1tnes<> 'l"'he amendment was, on page 1, line 11, after the word . to coll\ri.ct himRelf, a thing which is prohihited by our la.ws. "clerical," to strike out the words "or others," so as to make l\'e believe that every friPnd of business stability, of protection to A me.rican indnstries, and the highest degree of AmeriCRn prosperity the resolution read: will favor the abolition of the flexible provisions, thus leaving to Con Resolt,ed, etc., That the Committees on Military Affairs of the gt·e~<~s the sole power, as it is its duty under the Constitution, to reYiRe Senate of the United States and the House of Representatives, Ol" our tarltf laws and strengthen the wea.k spots. subcommittees thereof, be, and hPreby are. authorized to sit jointly during the sessions or adjourned intervals of the Sixty-eighth and ISABELL EASE Sixty-ninth Congresses, at such times and places as may seem advi.,able l\lr. KEYES, from the Committee to Audit antl Conti·ol the to the saill committees or their subcommittees ; to make investigations Contingent Expen es of the Senate, reported favorably and of the condition of Army posts and forts and other properties mai..n witho-ut amendment the resolution ( S. Res. 279) gulJmitted by tained for the military arm of the Government ; to employ such clerical l\Ir. CmtTIS on December 8, 1924, and it was considered by assistance as may be required in the judgment of said committees, to unanimQUS consent and agreed to, as follows : .send for persons, books, a.nd papers, to administer oaths and to employ Resolved,. That the Secretary of the Senate be, and ht> is hereby, a stenographer or stenographers at a co t of not to exceed 25 cents authorized and directed to pay 'out of the contingent fund of the per hundred words to report such hearings as may be had in further Senate to Isabell Ease, wi-dow of William Ease, late an employee on ance of the put·poses hereof ; the expenses thereof to be paid one-half the maintenance roll, Senate Office Building, a sum equal to slx from the contingent fund of the Senate and one-half from the con months' salary at the rate be was receiving by law at tbe time of hi~ tingent fund of the House of Representative upon. vouchers certified death, said sum to be con~;idered as including funeral expenses ancl all to by the chairmen of the said committees or of their subcommittees other allowances. and properly approved. 8 ABA.H BLAClO'ORD The amendment was agreed to. Mr. :KEYES, from the Committee to Audit and Control the The resolution as amended was agreed to. Contingent EA.'])enses of the Senate, reported favorably and INVESTIGATION OF THE BUREAU OF INTERNAL REVENUE without amendment the resolution (S. Res. 299) submitted by 1\Ir. CURTIS on January 15, 1925, and it was considered by Mr. KEYES. From the Committee to Audit and Control unanimous consent and agTeed to, as follows : the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, I report back faYot ably, with an n.mendment, Senate Re olution 33.1, submitted ReRolved, That the Secretary of the Senate be, and he hereby is, by the Senator from Michigan [1\:Ir. CocZE -s] on February 9, authodzcd and directed to pay out of the contingent fund of the 1925, to ex:ten(l the authority of the select c.-ommittee of the Renate to Sarah Blackford, widow o! Charlie Blackford, late an Senate inve.~tigating the Bureau of Internal Revenue affairs. t-mployee on the maintenance roll) Senate Office Building, a sum equal The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The re ·olution will be read. to six months' salary at the rate he was receiving by law at the time The resolution ( S. Res. 333) wns read, as fvllows: of his death, and t>ald sum to be considered as including funeral expenses and all other allowance • Whereas the select committee of the Senate appointed under author ity of Senate ResolutiOIIS 168 and 211 of the Sixty-eighth Congress to MA.IWARET W. GILFRY investigate the Bureau of lilternal Revenue was instructed to report its Mr. KEYES, from tbe Committee to Audit and Control the findings ; and Conti11gent Expenses of the Senate, reported favorably and Whereas the committee ha not completed a thorough inquiry and mthout amendment the resolution (S. Res. 334), submitted by will be unabl~ to do so before March 4, 1925 : Be it Mr. Mc::s-A.RY February !>, 1925, and it was considered by RPsolt:ea, That the select corrrmittee of the Senate authorized in unanimous consent and agreed to, as follows : Senate Resohn:ions 168 and 211 of the Sixty-eighth ongress to investi Resolve.di, Tlla.t the Secretar.v of the .;enate is hereby authorized I gate the Bureau of Internal Revenue and appoint~>d under these reso a.nc.l directl:!d to pay out of th~ contingent fund of the Scnate to lutions is hereby authorized and directed to continue ita work after - 1925 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 4631 March 4, 1925., and, if deemed advisable by the committee, to sit and be paid one-half from the contingent fund o.f the Senate and one-half hold hearings in the interim between the adjournment of the Sixty from the rontingent fund of the House of Repl'('se-ntatives, upon eiahth Congress and the convening of the first regular session of the vouchers properly approved. Sixty-ninth Congre s, and that all authority granted in Senate Reso The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from South lutions 168 and 211 of the Sixty-eighth Congress shall be and is con Carolina asks unanimous consent for the immediate consid tinued under this resolution. eration of the resolution. Is there objection? The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there objection? Mr. ASHURST. Mr. President, the last thing I shall do Mr. MOSES. Mr. President, do I understand request was is to object to the resolution whieh my friend the senior made for the immediate con ideration of the resolution? Senator from South Carolina [Mr. SMITH] desires to have Mr. KEYES. I did not ask for its immediate consideration, adopted. No doubt the resolution is worthy and ought to be Mr. President. . . agreed to, but I embrace this opportunity to propotmd an Mr. MOSES. The chairman of the committee did not ask inquiry to the chairman of the Committee to Audit and Control that the resolution be now considered. the Contingent Expenses of the Senate. I observe that a The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there objection? meeting of that committee has heen held, and I now ask the Mr. MOSES. Mr. President, at the moment I am constrained honorable chairman of the committee why the committee have to object because of the absence of two Senators who have not reported the resolution submitted by th~ Senator from spoken to me about the matter, both Senators being unable Oregon [Mr. Mc~.uY] providing for the appointment of a to be here earlier to-day. subcommittee of the Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation Mr. ROBIJ.~SON. Let the resolution go over. to visit the Southwest to investigate certain problems and The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The resolution will go to to obtain certain information which we of the Southwest the calendar. deem important regarding the Colorado River? I am not M.r. NORRIS. Mr. President, may not the resolution lie on content to see other resoluticms singled out and adopted and the table without prejudice? The Senator from Michigan [Mr. then to obse:r:.ve this particular resolution being ignored. CouzENS] is not now present. Mr. KEYES. There is no particular reason why the com Mr. MOSES. I have no objection to that course. mittee has not acted, except that the committee has not been Mr. SMOOT. I hope the request of the Senator from Ne together to consider the matter and has had very little infor braska will be granted. mation in regard to it. Mr. NORRIS. I ask that the resolution lie on the table Mr. ASHURST. How could the committee nave reported without p:rejudice. the various other resolutions just agreed to if it had not been Tbe PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there objection? The together? Surely the committee did not report those re. olu Chair hears none, and the resolution will lie on the table. tions without a meeting? JOINT COMMISSION OF INQ-UIRY ON COTTON STATISTICS 1\Ir. KEYES. We have not been able to get the committee together to consider th~ resolution to which the Senator Mr. KEYES. .Mr. President, from the Committee to Audit from Arizona refers. and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, I report Mr. ASHURST. But the Senator was able to get the com back favorably th-e joint resolution ( S': J. Res. 183) establish mittee together to consider otller resolutions. ing a joillt congressional commission to make an examination Mr. KEYES. I can assure the SenatOl' that the committee and audit of cotton statistics in the Bureau of the Census, and still has a number of resolutions pending before it. I hope fe1~ other purposes. The committee has recommended a change the committee will act p1·omptly on the resolution in which in form to a concurrent resolution and has reported, therefore, the Senator from Arizona is interested, and I know of no a new draft with some amendments to the original text, which opposition to it. I understand are satisfactory to the Senator from South Caro Mr. ASHURST. I am not the author of the resolution con lina [Mr. SMITH], who introduced the original joint resolution. cerning which I am inquiring. The Senator from Oregon [M:r. Mr. SMITH. Mr. President, the resolution involT'es a matter McNARY], who is able to take eare of himself anywhere, is the of very vital importance and should be adopted at this session. auth-or of the resolution; but I submit that every Senator from I ask unanimous consent for its immediate consideration. the Southwest would be recreant to his trust if he sat here Mr. MOSES. Before granting that eonsent I should like to and permitted a large number of resolutions of tb.h; character have the resolution read, because I am interested in the amend to go through whilst the resolution which probably is one of ments. the most important of all, is pigeonholed. l\Ir. Sl\IITH. The amendments are in accordance with sug I do not intend that that shall occur with my silence. It gestions which have been made. shall only be done over my protest ; and I beg th~ able and dili The PRESIDEKT pro tempore. The Secretary will read the gent Senator from New Hampshire to reconvene his committee, joint resolutien as amended before the question is put as to and if he should then say be does not know the importance of its consideration. the resolution there are many Senators who. will convince his The READING CLERK. In lieu of Senate Joint Resolution 183 committee as to its importance. the Committee to Audit and C~ntrol the Contingent Expenses Mr. JOHNSON of California. Mr. Prerident-- of the Senate report a concurrent resolution (S. Con. Res. 36), The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The C!Jair is obliged to say as follows: that in view of the condition of the pub-lic business he can not Resolved by the /Senate (the Houe of Representatives concurring), entertain debate upon a request for unanimous consent. That there is he-reby e tablisbed a joint congre,c;;sional commission to 1\fr. JOHNSON of ·california. I simply want to make a.n be kno.wn as the Joint Commission of Inquiry: on Cotton Statistics, and inquiry of the chairman of the committee. I agree with what to be composed of three Senators, appointed by the President of the has been said by the Senator from Arizona. This is a most im Senate pro tempore, and three Members elect of the Hou e of Repre portant matter to those of us from the West. Is there any sentatives for the Sixty-ninth Congress, appointed by the Speaker. opposition to the particular resolution? The commission is authorized and directed (1) to make a complete ex Mr. KEYES. None that I know of. amination and audit of cotton statistics in the Bureau ol the Ce.rums, Mr. JOHNSON of California. It has been before the com showing the carry ovet·, the production, the consumption and distribu mittee, has it not, for some three or four week-s now! tion each yea.r, and the correct amount of r.otton now on hand, and Mr. KEYES. I had hoped that some one interested in the (2) to mate a report to the Congress as to its findings, together with resolution would.ask to come before the committee. We shall recommendations for legi lation, if any be thought nece ary. The be glad to bear anybody who is interested in it. commi sion shall elect n. ehairman from among its members, dnd vaean l\Ir. JOHNSON of California. I had under tood that the cies occurring. in th~ membership of the commission shall be filled in Senator from Oregon had taken up the matter with the chair the same manner as the original appointments. man of the committee on many occasion . For the purposes of this resolution. the commiss'Ton, or any subcom Mr. KEYES. I do not recall that he has on many occasions. mittee thereof, is authorized to hold hearings and to sit and act at I think he has spoken to me twice and said something about the suc-h places and times, to employ such experts and clerical, steno re olution. graphic. and other assistants, to require, by subprena or otherwise, Mr. JOHNSON of California. May we ask that there be the attendance of such witnesses and the production of such books, action upon it at the earliest possible moment? papers, and documents in the custody of any Federal official, to ad Mr. KEYES. Certainly~ I shall be very glad to act upon it. minister such oaths, and to take such testimony as it deems advisable. The PRESIDEl'\TT pro tempore. Is. there objection? The cost of stenographic service to report such hearings shall not be 1\fr. SHORTRIDGE. 1\Ir. President-- in ex.cess of 25 cents per hundred words. It shall be the duty of any The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Does the Senator rise to governmental establishment, upon request by the commission., to cooper debate the question of whether consent shall be granted? ate with and render assistance to the commission in carrying out the Mr. SHORTRIDGE. No; not to d-ebate it. If the Chair will provi ions. of this resolution. The expenses of the commission shall indulge me just a word, I have spoken to a number of the 4632 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SEN ATE FEBRUARY 25 i.nembers of the committee, and I have as&urance that the reso on a curve to the left of 612 feet radius, central angle 155• 47' 50", lution introduced by'the Senator from Oregon will be reported tangent to a line deflected 102" 6' 5" to the left from the pre· favorably. ceding course a distance <>f 1,664.13 feet to the westerly line <>f Lyon Mr. BORAH. Mr. rt·esident, may I ask the Senator a ques Street and the point of commencement, containing 9.03 acres, more tion'? Is there any estimate of what this inyestigation will or less: Provided, however, in the event of war or any other great cost? national emergency, the United States shall have the right, which it Mr. SMITH. The matter has been referred to the Committee hereby reserves, to take exclusive possession of said land and all im to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate. provements thereon, without the payment of any compensation there ~'he fact is, I think, that the cost will be very small. It is re for, and to hold, <>ccupy, and use the same during the continuance stricted to an investigation of the papers in the hands of the of such war or emergency. l''ederal authorities here, and under the resolution they are re Said grant shall become effective only In the event that the city quired to cooperate with the committee. and county of San Francisco shall grant to the United States the The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there objection to the right to maintain and operate over its public stre.ets a spur track present consideration of the concurrent resolution? The Chair railroad extending from Fort Mason Military Reservation in the city hears none. and county <>f San Francisco to said Presidio Reservation, over such The concurrent resolution was considered by unanimous con route or routes as may be determined by resolution or ordinance of sent, and agreed to. the board of supervisors of said city and county and approved by the Secretary of War. If, before the 1st day of July, 1D27, the city and MECKLENBURG SESQUICENTENNIAL COMMISSIO:N county of San Francisco shall fail to grant by valid ordinance to Mr. OVERMAN. Mr. President, on behalf of the Senator the \J"nited States the right to maintain and operate said spur track, from Pennsyh·ania [Mr. PEPPER], I report back favorably, this grant shall become null and void, and title to said premises shall from the Committee on the Library, without amendment Senate revert to the United States: Pro,;idcd, hotoeuer, 'l'hat in any event bill 4361, establishing a commission for the participation of the until the 1st day of July, 1927, said city and county of San Francisco United States in the observance of the one hundred and fiftieth may use, occupy, and retain possession <>f said Palace of Fine Arts anniversary of the patriotic action taken by the people of and the ground upon which it is located. Mecklenbmg Cotmty of North Carolina in :May, 1775, in declar The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, or· ing their independence of the English Crown. I should like dered to be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, very much to have unanimous consent for the consideration and passed. and passage of this bill. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there objection to the PROPOSED STATE TAX ON COTTONSEED orr, PRODUCTS pre ·ent consideration of the bill just reported by the Senator Mr. HEFLIN. 1\lr. President, a day or two ago I introduced from North Carolina? a resolution regarding the proposed legislation in some of the There being no objection, the Senate, as in Committee of the States touching commerce between the States. Whole, proceeded to consider the bill, which was read, as fol The PRESIDE~~ pro tempore. The Chair may suggest to lows: the Senator from Alabama that at the conclusion of the Be it enacted, etc., That there is hereby established a commission to routine morning business the resolution to which he refers be known as the United States Mecklepburg Sesquicentennial Commis will be laid before the Senate. The Senate is now receiving sion (hereinafter referred to as the commis •ion) and to be composed reports of committees. If there are no further reports of com of 11 commissioners, as follows: Three persons to be appointed by the mittees, the introduction of !Jills and joint resolutions is in Pre ident of the United States, four Senators by the President of. the order. Senate, and four Memi.Jers of the IIouse of Representatives to be ap Mr. HEFLIN. I was simply going to state that I have pointed by the Speaker. The commission shall serYe without compensa rewritten the resolution. It has been modified, and I think tion and shall select a chairman from among their number. now there will be no objection to it. SEc. 2. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any Mr. MOSES. Let it come up in the regular order, Mr. mone~· in the Treasury not otherwi c appropriated, the sum of $G,OOO to President. lJe expended by the commis ·ion for actual and necessary traveling ex The PRESIDENT pro tempore. 'l'he Senator from New penses and subsistence while discharging its official duties outside the Hampshire demands the regular order. lJi ·trict of Columbia. Mr. MOSES. The Senator's resolution will be reached in S1,;c. 3. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any a very few minutes u.nder the regular order. money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $10,000 Mr. HEFLIN. Very well. to be utilized in the discretion of the commission for the appropriate AIR MAIL SERVICE BETWEEN NEW ORLEANS AND PANAMA CANAL participation on the part of the United States in the celebration and ZONE observance at the city of Charlotte, county of Mecklenburg, N. C., on 1\!r. RANSDELL. Mr. President, I introduce a bill to estab· the 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, and 22d days of May, 1925, of the one lish an air mail service between the city of New Orleans, La., hundred and fiftieth anniYersary of the patriotic action of the citizens and the Panama Canal Zone. of Mecklenburg County, N. C., in May, 1775, in declaring their inde The bill ( S. 4383) to estabij.sh an air mail service between pendence of the English Crown. the city of Kew Orleans, La., and the Panama Canal Zone The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, was read twice by its title. ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, read the third Mr. RANSDELL. I ask unanimous consent of the Senate time, and passed. · to occupy not exceeding three minutes in explaining the bill. Mr. SMOOT. The Senator is not going to ask unanimous PRESIDIO MILITARY RESERYATION, SAN FRANCISCO consent for the consideration of the bill? Mr. PEPPER. 1l'rom the Committee on the Library I re 1\fr. RA.1~SDELL. Not at alL I just want atiout three min port !Jack favorably, without amendment, Senate bill 4264, utes to explain the bill. authorizing the Secretary of War to convey certain portions The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, the Sen of the military reservation of the Presidio of San Francisco ator bas three minutes to explain the bill. to the city and county of San Francisco for educational, art, Mr. RANSDELL. Mr. President, it would !Je difficult to esti e~-position, and park purposes, and I ask unanimous consent mate the advantages to be derived from an air mail service for its })resent consideration. between New Orleans, La., and the Panama Canal Zone. When 'l'he PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there· objection to the this is done other lines would spring up connecting the major immediate consideration of the bill just reported by the Sena route wtth the capitals of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nica tor from PennsylYania? 'l'he Chair hears none. ·l'Ugua, El SalYador, Co ta Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, The Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, proceeded to con and other South .American countries, while air service would sider the. bill, which was read, as follows: connect New Or!eans with the principal citfes of the United Rc it enacted, etc., That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, States. authorized to convey to the city and county of San Francisco, subject Communication with the capitals of Latin-America i cir to the conditions hereinafter specified, for educational, art, exposi cuitous, difficult, and very slow. The mountainous character of tion, and park purposes, tbat portion of the military reservation of the cou.ntry has placed an effective !Jarrier in the path of rail the Presidio of San Francisco in the city and county of San Fran road development. cisco, State of California, on which the Palace of Fine Arts is located, In the beginning such an air mail service may not produce included within metes antl bounds as follows ! sufficient revenue to be self-sustaining. This would be off ·et, Commencing at a point on the westerly line of Lyon Street, distant howe·n•r, by . the tremendous increase in commerce which it thereon 5.17 feet southerly from the northerly line of Bay Street, if would generate. extended and produced westerly, and running thence northerly along A pressing need exists for more rapid mail communication the westerly line of Lyon Street 1,196.80 feet; thence southwesterly between these sections of the two Americas. Business can not r925 OONGllESSIQN AiL "B.iECORD-SEN ATE 4633 1lourish ·when long delays are •required for the .exchnnge of In ·the proper place 1n the bill insert the following : tletters between them. U'elegraph and Titdio are doing ihe1r " That the Seoretar_y of the Treasury be and he is hereby authlJI'oO part, but ·are costly and ha:ve -inherent limitations. ized and directed to pay, out of any money in the !rl!easury not otlwr~ Speed in modern Dllsiness .I 4634 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE FEBRUARY 25 ll. J. Res. 226. A joint resolution for the relief of special would mean. That is the reason why the Senator from New ·disbursing agents of the Alaskan Engineering Commission, Hampshire is advancing that idea. It is because he desires to authorizing the payment of certain claims, and for other pur further suppress the information that may be contained in poses, affecting the management of the Alaska Railroad; to this report. That is my view of the situation. the Committee on Territories and Insular Possessions. Mr. BRUCE. Mr. Presklent-- PRICE OF GASOLIXE The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Does the Senator from Florida yield to the Senator from Maryland? The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair lays before the Mr. TRAMMELL. I will yield for a question only, not for Senate a. resolution coming over from a previous day, which a speech. the Secretary will read. The reading clerk read Senate Resolution 341, submitted by Mr. BRUCE. That is all I ask of the Senator and my ques tion is this: Has any statement been made by' the President 'Mr. 'l'RAMMELL on the 18th instant, as follows: or by the Federal Trade Commission to the effect that there is R esolved, That the Federal Trade Commission be, and it is hereby, any public reason why this report should be withheld from directed to forthwith transmit to the Senate a copy of its report on its the public? I merely ask the question for information. investigation in 1023 and 1924 of the price of crude oil, gasoline, and Mr. TRAMMELL. None has been made. There has been n() other petroleum products and other data pertaining to the operations public information gi1en out in regard to the report. Not of the oil companies and refineries. even to the press has there been furnished any information as Mr. MOSES. Mr. President, this is the resolution to which to what the report contains. I understand that the press has I raised some objection the other day. If the Senator from been denied any information as to what is embraced within the Florida is willing to direct the resolution to the President, and report. to insert the w-ords "if not incompatible with the public in Mr. BRUCE. It has been denied? terest," I shall not object to its consideration. I can not Mr. TR.Al\Il\IELL. I do not claim that the President has object und{'r the rule, I understand, nor am I disposed to take denied the information, but the press has been unable to ob .any time of the Senate in attempting to prevent its passage. tain any information as to what is contained in the report. I stated to the Senate the other day that I had been reliably .Mr. BRUCE. Xo statement has been made by the President informed that the report called for by the resolution is being or the Federal Trade Commic:;sion that there is any pul.Jlic used by tlJe Department of Justice in the pursuit of an inves reason why this report should be confidential? tigation to determine what, if any, legal proceedings shall Mr. TRAMl\illLL. Not that I know of. be had. Mr. BRUCE. Then I shall vote for the resolution. Under those circumstances it is my opinion that the report 1\Ir. TRAMl\lELL. None has been made that I know of. I should not become public property. If the Senator from have heard of no reason why it should not be made public. I Florida will agree to the insertion of the words " if not in am tmable to see why the Senate is not entitled to this informa compatible with the public interest," and will direct the resolu tion. It seems rather peculiar to me that this body passes tion to tlte President, who can direct the Federal Trade Com resolutions almost daily for the investigation of everything on mission to send the report here, I shall interpose no objection. the face of the earth, but when it comes to a matter of such Otherwise I f'hall have to enter upon the use of a great deal vital importance to the American people, a matter in which the of time in di ~cussing matters relevant and irrelevant to the entire citizenship of our country are interested, there are resolution. In the first instance, I shall have to suggest the ~enators who offer some technical objection as to why the reso absence of a quorum, because the junior Senator from Okla lution should not be adopted, or as to why it should be so homa [Mr. HARRELD], who is vitally interested in the resolu trimmed ·about that it will not be effective and that no results tion, is not in the Chamber. will be obtained through the adoption of the resolution. I The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Does the Senator from New think the resolution should be adopted just as it has been -Hampshire suggest the absence of a quorum? offered. I do not like the idea of accepting amendments which Mr. MOSES. I have not done so yet, as I am trying to find would defeat the purpose and object of the resolution. out whether the Senator from Florida _is willing to accept the My resolution calling for an investigation into the recent slight amendment which I am suggesting. · increase in the price of gasoline has been objected to, but I see Mr. TRAMMELL. 1\fr. President, it is my understanding no reason wh:r the Senate should not consider it, since it has that this investigation was not made at the direction of the been pending for a week. I should dislike to feel that I had to P1·esident, but that it was made on the initiative of the Federal object to everybody else's efforts to get up matters by unani· Trade Commission, probably at the suggestion of the governors mous consent, but I have almost reached the point where I of certain States. That being true, I see no reason why we would feel that. I should object to the consideration of any should call upon the President to transmit to the Senate this matter by unanimous consent if there is to be a policy on the information instead of making a direct request on the Federal part of one or two or three or four Senators to prevent even Trade Commission. Of course, I know the obj.ect and the consideration of my resolution inquiring into the recent ad · purpose of the Senator from New Hampshire. It is to further vance in the price of gasoline..- suppress the information contained in this report. '!'here is 1\fr. NORRIS. Mr. President-- · no use fooling ourselves or being deceived in the matter. It Mr. TRAMMELL. I say that resolution should be consid ered. If the Senate wants to vote it down, let it be voted down, the Senate should pass a resolution requesting the President f to tran'"' mit llie report, and to say in the resolution "if not but let us have an expression on it. I incompatible with the public interest," there would be every The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Does the Senator fTom probability that we would never receive the information. Florida yield to the Senator from Nebraska? The Senator from New Hampshire may entertain the idea Mr. TRAMMELL. I yield. that the Senate and the public have no right to this informa Mr. NORRIS. Why does not the Senator move that the reso tion, but I entertain a contrary view, namely, that the investi- lution be taken up? lle has a right to do that. ·gation was carried on by a public commission, a commission Mr. TRAl\Il\IELL. I have asked to have it taken up once or that i~ serving the public, or which should serve the public, twice, but it was under unanimous consent, and objection was and not merely the President, that the Senate should have the made. information, and that the public should have the benefit of such Mr. NORRIS. An objection will not avail, even if it should information as may be contained in the report. This is displace something eLc:;e. If the Senator would move to take it peculiarly true in view of the fact that the oil companies up, I have no doubt his motion would preV"ail. throughout the country haYe within the past two or three Mr. MOSES. It is a resolution coming over from a previous weeks made what appears to be an exorbitant increase in the day, is it not?. · price of gasoline and of crude oil. The information called for l\Ir. TRilfl\IELL. It is a resolution coming over from a by the resolution bears directly upon that subject. previous day. · I do not see why the Senate should surrender the entire Mr. l\IOSES. Then the resolution is properly before the Sen supervision of this matter to the President and to the Depart ate at this time. ment of Justice. It has been stated upon the floor of the Sen Mr. TRAl\11\IELL. I do not care to accede to the request of ate that the Federal Trade Commission made an investigation the Senator, that we amend the resolution so as to kill it. I last year, and that has been the reason advanced why we would li](e to have a Yote on the resolution as I introduced it, should not adopt another resolution, such as I have introduced calling on the Federal Trade Commission to transmit this re ·making inquiry into the advance in the price of gasoline and of port to the Senate for its consideration. I thi.nk the informa crude oil. tion called for is V"ery pertinent, that it is information to which I do not like to agree to any amendment to a resolution the Senate and the American people are entitled. which me-ans the sounding of its death knell or the pigeon . There was Romething said here the other day about the De holing of the resolution, and that is what this amendment partment of Justice having this report, and that it would 1925 CONGRESS! ON AL RECORD-SENATE ~635 ' probably do something or had already done something. The which I had hoped he would accept. If he will not accept Department of J·ustice has done nothing except to file a suit in them and the Senate will not accept them, necessarily under equity involving certain patents. That does not go to the main the parliamentary situation I shall be compelled to submit; but question. The main question is that of price fixing and the it seems to me if the Senator from Florida wishes to accom attitude and the practice of the oil companies in pyramiding plish no purpose other than that which the resolution points prices at regular, frequent seasons throughout the year, when, out, he would not wish to hamper the progress of justice in as many think, there is no apparent justification for such ab order that a form of words which he has drafted should pass normal and unreasonable advances in the price of gasoline. without change through the Senate. So it is no answer to this resolution to say that thE! Department The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is on agreeing of Justice has brought some kind of an equity suit seeking to· to the resolution of the Senator from Florida. establish whether there bas been some infringement of certain Mr. MOSES. The Senator from Oklahoma [Mr. HA.RRELD], patent rights on the part of one company that may belong to who is interested in the matter, is not present. Therefore I another company. There is no information before the Senate suggest the absence of a quorum. that the Department of Justice has done anything else what The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The absence of a quorum ever, although this report was filed with the President last is suggested. The Clerk will call the roll. June, eight months ago, and has been in the bands of the The principal legislative clerk called the roll, and the fol Department of .Justice for Rix or seT"en months. lowing Senators answered to their names: I think the Senate is entitled to the information, I think the Ashurst Fernald Ladd Sheppard country is entitled to the information, and for that reason I ~o Ball Ferris Lenroot Shipstead - not like to have the resolution hedged about so as to accom Bayard Fess McKellar Shortridge Bingham Fletcher McKinley Simmons plish its defeat in a mild way. That is what the amendment Borah Frazier McLean Smith would mean. It would mean the defeat of the purpose and the Brookhart George Mc~ary Smoot object of the resolution. I hope the resolution will be adopted. Broussard Gerry Mayfield Spencer Bruce Glass Means Stanfield 1\fr. MOSES. Mr. President, of course I am not presump Bur um Gooding Metcalf Stephens tuous enough to think that I could conceal from the discerning Butler Greene Moses Sterling Senator from Florida any motive which I might have in any Cameron Hale Neely Swanson Capper Harreld Norbeck Trammell thing I attempted to do in the Senate. Nor am I presumptuous Caraway Harris Norris Wadsworth enough to think that any form of words which the Senator Copeland Heflin Oddie "Kalsh, Mass. from Flol'ida writes into a resolution can be improved upon. Cummins Howell Overman Walsh, Mont. Curtis Johnson, Calif. Pepper Warren Nevertheless I will state my own motives for myself in the Dale Johnson, Minn. Phipps Watson action which I have taken thus far on this resolution, and Dial Jones, N. Mex. Pittman Weller which I purpose to take. It is that I do not believe it proper Dill Jones, Wash. Ralston Willis Edge Kendrick Reed. Mo. for the Senate to withdraw from the Department of Justice a Edwards Keyes Reed, Pa. report of the Federal Trade Commission upon which the De Ernst King Robinson partment of Justice is conducting an investigation with a view The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Eighty-five Senators having to instituting legal proceedings. answered to the roll call, a quorum is present. T4e Senator from Florida points out that thus far the 1.\Ir. MOSES. The question before the Senate is on agree Department of Justice has done nothing but institute proceed ing to the resolution of the Senator from Florida? ings with reference to the use of certain patents. That is true, The PRESIDENT pro tempore. It is. 1\fr. President, but I am informed, I think with reliability, that Mr. MOSES. I move to amend the resolution so that it the Department of Justice is at work, through agents, several shall read: in numb~r, upon this very report, with a view to ascertain whether further proceedings, even of a criminal nature, may Resolved, That the President be and is hereby requested, if not not be had. Under those circumstances I would not wish to incompatible with the public interest, to forthwith transm'it to the take the responsibility of bringing out the report and making it Senate a copy of the report by the Federal Trade Commission on its public property and of putting upon notice those per ons, those investigation in 1923 and 1924, etc. corporations, those interests, which are under inT"estigation, The amendment puts the resolution in the usual form of and which might be brought before the courts under proceed such inquiries. It may be that the Senate of the United ings duly instituted. States can not trust the President, but the country does. Therefore, I think this resolution should be couched in the Mr. TRAMMELL. 1.\Ir. President, with reference to the usual form in which such resolutions are agreed to, .and should amendment proposed by the Senator from New Hampshire, I be addressed to the President, who is the channel through wish it known that it is not a question of not trusting the whom we communicate with the executive departments. We President, but it is a matter of requesting that the report come do not customarily demand that public papers be sent here from the department which made the report. I take it that from a subordinate bureau or an independent establishment; tbe Senate bas as much right to this information and report we transmit our requests through the President. I think this as the President has to the report. For that reason I feel resolution should also take that course. that we may, with perfect propriety and with perfect courtesy I think this resolution also, in view of the facts which have to the President, make the request direct upon the Federal been communicated to me and which I belieT"e to be well au Trade Commission for the report. For that !'eason, I hope the thenticated, should contain the words "if not incompatible amendment proposed by the Senator from New Hampshire with the public interest," so that no one who may have been will not be adopted. guilty of an infraction of the law shall-be put upon notice of 1\It', WALSH of Montana. Mr. President, the amendment proceedings which are contemplated against him. proposed by the Senator from New Hampshire presents a I do not know whether the recent increase in the price of rather important question, namely, whether the President of . gasoline is compatible with the increase in the price of crude the United States can control the action of the Federal Trade oil or not. As a matter of fact, I have no personal interest in Commission. I trust that idea will not be accepted by the , this matter. No drop of oil is produced in my State or in my Senate. I trust it will be understood that the Federal Trade ' section of the country. I hear no special outcry from my State Commission and the Interstate Commerce Commission and or from my section of the country about prices of oil or of other bodies of like character discharging quasi judicial duties gasoline. will not be regarded as under the domination of the President When the Senator from Florida attempts to point out, as a of the United Stat-es as are the various departments of the justification for the resolution in the form in which be presents Go-vernment. l\Iy understanding about the matter is, that the it, that the Senate has been passing other resolutions of in President of the United States has no control wbateT"er over vesigation, that is too sadly true. It is because the Senate, the Federal Trade Commission or any of its acts. He has without forethought, rashly, impetuously, tumultuously even, no authQrity to direct the Federal Trade Commission in any· and in a number which no one can possibly estimate, has particular. If we want information from any of those bodie:J passed resolutions of investigation and carried on a satm'nalia we must go to those bodies for the information. of investigation, to no purpose, either practical or political, I should have no objection to the amendment except the one that the Senate has fallen in the esteem of the public. If for I suggest, namely, that we ought to leave these bodies, so no other reason than that, I would seek to protect the Senate far as we can, as utterly independent as it is possible to do against further public reproach, because of another effort to so to discharge their quasi judicial duties as nearly as they embark upon a saturnalia of investigation. can be discharged by a court. At any rate, I can assure the Senator from Florida that the Mr. CURTIS. Mr. President-- Senate will have a chance to vote on the two amendments Mr. WALSH of Montana. It seems to me it would be quite :which I deem to be simple, which I dee!Jl to be proper, and ~s co_!!siste_!!t ~o !!Sk the P:resident of the United Stf!tes to • 4636 CONGRESS! ON AL REOORD-SEN-1\.TE FEBRUARY 25 transmit information possessed by the Supreme Oourt (}f the Mr. MOSES. I am not questioning the right of the Federal United States as by the F-ederal Trade Commission. I yield Trade Commission to have made this investigatio11, and, of to the Senator from Kansas. course, I know that the right of the Senate is undoubted to llr. CURTIS. With the fact known that the Department demand any document which it may tish from any d<.'part of Justice is looking into these matters -with a view to bring ment. Sometimes our requests and our demands for documents ing suit , I desire to ask the Senator it he does not think or for information from nn executive deparbnent are re that the words "if not incompatible with the public interest" ceived with courtesy and the document is produced, but some should be written into the request for the report? times such requests are completely ignored, and the Senate is Mr. WALSH of Montana. If it were going to the President, p.ot even accbrded the courtesy of receiving the reply, "Yours of course, that language should be written in. There is no received and contents noted." I a.m not raising that quf'~ tion question about that proposition at all, but I raise the question at all, .Mr. President; I am raising the question of the pro whether it should go to the President. priety of this action under the circumstances. Mr. CURTIS. I had reference to the suggestion of the 'Mr. BRUCE. Yes; but how long is this right on the part of Senator that the resolution should be directed to the Federal Congress to have access to an important document of that Trade Commission. If that be true, ought not that provision kind to be denied? to be included, because it is a fact that the report is being Mr. MOSES. I am not denying the right of Congress to used by the Department of Justice and investigators are now have access to this document if the Senate by a majority vote in the field investigating certain parts of the report. I have a shall agree to this resolution in any form. I know that the positive statement to that effect from the attorney in charge Senate is acting within its rights. Mr. President, I appeal to of the ca e. Otherwise it might be that something would be the Senator from Maryland as a lawyer, as a believer in jus- · made public which ought not to be made public. tice, whether he thinks that a report upon which a prosecuting ~1r. WALSH of Montana. I agree with tbe Senator about department is at work with a view to instituting legal pro that feature. ceedings should be made public prior to action being taken? Mr. CURTIS. I think in view of that fact, the Senator ought Mr. BRUCE. But the Department of Justice may never. take to consent to the inclusion of those words. any action at all, and it seems to me that Congress ought to l\Ir. MOSES. Mr. President, apparently there is an inter be placed in a position to determine whether action should be esting colloquy between the two Senators, but we can not hear taken or not. a word of it. Mr. MOSES. If the Senator wishes to impugn the motives .i.\Ir. CURTIS. I beg the Senator's pardon. I was stating of the Department of Justice, he may do so . that I have positive information from the attorney in charge The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senate will be in order. of thi matter for the Department of Justice that they have Gentlemen at the rear of the Chamber will please take their had investigators in the field looking into the matters con seats until order is restored. The proceedings of the Senate tained in the report with a view to bringing action if it were will be suspended until Senators take their seats. justified. Therefore, I think there ought to be incorporated in Mr. BRUCE. Mr. President-- the resolution the words "if not incompatible with the public The PRESIDENT-pro tempore. The Chair will recognize no interest." So far as I am concerned I do not care if the reso Senator until the Senate is in order~ lution is directed to the Federal Trade Commission ; I am in Mr. HRUCE. I think I have the floor. clined to think it should be addressed to the commission ; but The PRESIDENT pro tempore. And there will not be order I do think they ought not to be asked to send the report here until gentlemen in the rear of the Chamber take their seats. if it would interfere with the investigation_of the case. Mr. BRUCE. I think I have the 1loor, so far as a fact ot Mr. WALSH of Montana. I am quite sure that is not the that kind can be determined. intention of the Senator from Florida. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Did the Senator from Mary 'Mr. MOSES. ].fa-· I say to the Senator from Montana that land understand the statement of the Chair? according to the statement made by the Senator from Florida Mr. BRUCE. Excuse me, 1\I:r. P.resident; I did not even llear the report went to the President from the Federal 'Trade Com the statement. mission. If the Federal Trade Commission bad thought it The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Proceedings will be sus to be of a nature to be given to the public, undoubtedly tbe pended until order shall have been .restored. Federal Trade Commission would have· so given it. The Sena Mr. BRUCE. I thought that that order itself had been tor from Florida admits, even complains, that the assiduous suspended. gentlemen of the press have not been able to secure the &ub- The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Now, does the Senator from tance of the report Therefore, there must be some :reason New Hampshire yield to the Senator from Maryland? why the report has not been given publicity by those who Mr. MOSES. The Senator from Maryland [Mr. BRuCE] had wrote it o.r by those to whom it has been transmitted. Cer the floor and I was interrogating him. tainJy, whether the resolution is addressed to the Federal Mr. BRUCE. I simply wish to express my regret that I ~l-ade Commissoin or to the President- and J: still maintam should have proceeded when the Presiding Officer had ordered that the President is the proper avenue-the words "if not the suspension of proceedings. I did not hear the &atement of incompatible with the public .interest" should be included in the Chair. the resolution. APPOINTMENTS TO TARIFF CO~UIISSION 1 can not conceive that the Senator from Florida wants the / report to be made public if it is incompatible with the public .Mr. SIMMONS. Mr. President, I rise to a question of per· .I interest to do so. I can not conceive that the Senator from sonal plivilege. I will detain the Senate for on.ly a moment. Florida will undertake to set up his dictum of what is com On the 13th day o-f January of this year I read into the patible with the public interest regarding a report which he CoNGRESSIONAL RxcoBD a short editorial from the Washington has never seen, the contents of which he does not know, th~ Post with .reference to a certain letter that had been circulated import of which noboqy can predict, inasmuch as the Depart by the National T.ari.ff Oouncil soliciting contributions for the ment of Justice is working on it with a view to instituting purpose of certain propaganda to obtain the appointment of legal proceedings. protectionist Democrats on the Tariff Commission. Mr. BRUCE. Mr. President-- I also put into the REconn at the same time the letter re .Mr. CURTIS. .M:r. President, before the Senator from Mary ferred to in the editorial published in the Post, and I briefly land proceeds-- commented thereon. In order that the statement I intend now Mr. BRUCE. I mereJ,y wish to make a statement; I a.m to .make may be understood, I ask for a 1·eprint in the RECORD not going to make an_y address. I simply wish to say that of that editorial and letter and the brief comment that I made I think there is one thing that the Senator from New Hamp on that occasion. shire IMr. MosEs] overlooked; that is, that under the pro- The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it will be d..sions of the Federal Trade Commission law Congress itself so ordeTed. has the right to direct an investigation, and. of course, Con· The matter referred to is as follows-: gress in some instances would be powerless to direct an inves • tigation unle s reports of this description were accessible APPOTNTMENT TO TARIFF COMMISSION to it. The commission has the right, on its {)Wn initiative, to Mr. SIMMONS. Mr. President, will the Senator from Washington inaugurate an investigation; and Congress has the separate yield to me for the purpose of putting certain documents in the and independent right to illect or to in.sist upon an investiga RECOJID? tion. It seems to me that makes quite a difference. Mr, JONES of Washington. I yield for that purpose. Mr. MOSES. Mr. President, will the Senator .now permit Mr. SulMONS. I want to read to the Senate a very brief editorial me to interrupt him? appearing this morning in the Washington I'ost under the title of "A. Mr. BRUCE. Yes. serious charge." as follows : • 1925 CONGRESSIONAL RECOR.D-SENATE 4637 "A SERIOUS CHARGE this question and put into the RECORD other documents that are in my possession relating to this matter. For the present I content my "The United States Sugar Association has issued a cll;cular under self by making public in the RECORD what appears to be an attempt date of January 9, signed by its secretat·y, in which it calls atten by grossly improper methods to influence the selection of the personnel tion to a letter sent out by Jesse F. McDonald, former Governor of Colorado, now president of the National Tariff Council of the State. of the commission. This extraordinary document, according to the sugar association's 1\lr. Sll\IMONS. On February 12, Mr. President, referring circular, solicits 'contributions of $100 each from 100 different indl· to the same subject, I used this language: viduals, firms, and corporations for the avowed purpose of preventing A few weeks ago, on January 30- the reappointment of Commissioner David J. Lewis and securing the selection of a "protectionist Democrat" in his place.' That should have been January 13- " If this letter has been correctly quoted by the sugar association, I read in the Senate an ed.itorlal from the Washington Post comment the charge is one \Yhich can not be ignored. No matter what modi· ing upon a certain letter alleged to have been somewhat extensively fications might appear from a perusal of the context, the implication distributed among certain classes in the country ad'focating the ap as set forth in the circular is of an unblushing attempt to bribe pointment by the President to membership upon this commission- officials of the United States Government. What else can 'contribu· tions ' for the ' purpose of preventing ' a reappointment mean? Meaning the Tariff Commission- " It would seem as if a great deal too much has been said, or much of Democrats known to favor a protective tariff. That letter was r~ too little. It assuredly behooves one who has been honored by the ferred to in terms of unqualified condemnation in the editorial which people of his State, as well as a host of presumably reputable firms I read from the Washington Post. The editorial did not contain the and individuals, to come forward to explain the meaning of their letter referred to. I happened to have in my possession a copy of the actions." letter that had -been given to me. It was a letter issued by some Mr. President, I wish also to put in the RECORD, along with the branch organization of the Protective Tariff League or some organiza· editorial, the letter to which it refers. It the Senator from Washing tion in some way associated with the Protecti'fe 'fariff League. ton will grant me sufficient time, I woUid like to have the clerk read the lettet·. I assumed, 1\lr. President, that I was ju~tified in making that Mr. JONES of Washington. I have no objection. statement by reason of the fact that the letter to which I re The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. MOSES in the chair), Without objec• ferred was issued by the American Tariff Council, an organi tion. the clerk will read as requested. zation functioning in Denver and in the South, and particu The reading clerk read as follows : larly for the reason that the letter contained the following language: NA'riO)jAL TAnrFF Cou~ciL, Denver, Oolo., Aflgust 15, 19ll-'l. I am inclosil)g copy of a news item from a recent issue of the Pueblo Drun 1\IR, ---: I am Inclosing copy of a news item from a Chieftan, which wlll give you a general idea of the work we are carry recent issue of the Pueblo Chieftain, which will give you a genet·al ing on in behalf of the producers of Colorado. idea of the work we ar·e carrying on in behalf of the producers of The National Tariff Council is doing similar work in Alabama, Georgia, Colorado. and other selected States in a concentrated effort to first break down The National Tariff Council is doing similar work in Alabama, the opposition to protection in the heart of the South and then use it Georgia, and other selected States in a concentrated effort to first as an influence in other States. break down the opposition to protect in the heart of the South and I assumed that the American Tariff Council was in some then use it as an influence in other States. way affiliated with the American Protective Tariff League, Of equal importance to this organization work is the appointment of because both organizations were doing the same character of a tarilf commissioner to succeed Commissioner Lewis, whose term of work--conducting propaganda in favor of the protective-tariff office expires September 30. theory in the Southern States and in the West. Mr. Lewis is one of the three commissioners who voted to reduce I have received a letter from the American Protective Tariff . the present tariff on sugar. The law requires that the Tariff Commis· Leag·ue, dated February 16, 1925. I will say, 1\Ir. President, sion shall be bipartisan and Mr. Lewis's successor must be a Demo that by reason of the fact that other matters have so closely crat. engaged my attention recently my correspondence has neces The industries comprising the National Tariff Council, numbering sarily been somewhat neglected, and that letter, although sev more than 100, are putting forth their combined efforts to secure the eral days old, was not brought to my attention until yesterday appointment of a protectionist Democrat to this important position. afternoon. I will not read the whole letter, but will quote The success of this movement means that friends of raw materials certain portions of it and then ask that the letter entire may will then constitute a majority of the Tariff Commission. be printed in the RECORD: As you w.ell know, there is a widespread movement now under way throughout the Nation for a general tariff reduction, especially on Bon. F. MeL. Sn.r.l\IOXs, 1·aw materials. United States Senate, Washington, D. 0. The tari!'f schedules affecting one of Colorado's leading money crops HONORED SIR : The members of the American Protective Tariff have recently been attacked and there is grave danger that other League believe that you would not willingly do anyone an injustice farm, ranch, and mine products may next come under fit·e. and feel sme that you will have no hesitancy in correcting your re \ The bankers, merchants, and producers of Colorad() are aiding the marks as reported in the CoxoRESSIONAL RECORD of February 12, in movement to prevent this discrimination against our State and we which you place responsibility upon the Protective Tarifl' League in the want you to join in financing this activity. following language- Will you be one of 100 prominent citizens to subscribe $100 to Meaning responsibility for the letter of the National Tariff this worthy cause? Check should be made p[\i'able to the National Council. I will now read the denial of the American Protective Tariff Council and mailed to Clark G. Mitchell, care of the Denver Tariff League, which is as follows : National Bank. Yours very truly, There is no protective tariff league in the country other than the 1885 JESS F. McDONALD, Oolorado Cllai.nnan. American Protective Tariff League, organized in under the society Approved: laws of the State of New York. RoY Cox, 'fhe American l'rotective Taritr League had nothing to do with the President Colorado Bankers' Associati.o11. incident referred to, either direct or indirect. It has no branch organi W. E. LETFORD, zation or subsidiary. The American Protective Tariff League believes in and ad,ocates an Prc~Sident Mountain States Beet (frou:ers' Marketing Association. BEN M. WHITE, adequate protective tariff to -every product natural to our soil and P1·esiaent Colm·ado Stookyrou;ers' Association,. climate, and its work is thoroughly understood by Members of the Congress. Its methods are an open book to you and your colleagues. W. J. II. DORAN, We knew nothing of the organization issuing the soliciting letter of Pr·esident Colorado Manufacturers and Merchants' Association,. D. B. BIER, August 15, 1!:124, until we saw its name in the daily newspapers when President Colorado Or·eamery Butter· Manufacttwers' Association. the letter was originally printed. FRANK RAUCHF USS, Mr. President, I am glad to read into the RECORD this state Secretat·y Colorado Honey P'rod·uoers' Assooiatiol~. ment of denial on the part of the American Protective Tariff Mr. SIMMONS. Mt·. Pre ident, I shall not trespass upon the time of the League. If my remarks have done them an injustice, as from Senator ft·om Washington, who very kindly gave me permission to their statement may seem to be the case, I am very glad to interrupt him merely f'or the purpose of putting these documents into make the correction. the RECORD. I do not at this time wish to comment at all upon the I ask unanimous consent to have the entire letter· from the documents, either the editorial ot· the letter. I think they both speak American Protective Tariff League from which I have read . adequately for themselves; but at some later time I shall revert to printed in the RECORD • 4638 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE FEBRUARY 25· The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so The PRESIDENT pro tempore appointed under the second ordered~ resolution the Senatol" from Illinois [Mr. McKINLEY], the The letter entire is as follows : junior Senator from Kentucky [:Jir. ERNST], the enior Sena tor from Maine [Mr. FERNALD], the junior Senator from Cali '.rHE AMERICAN PROTECTIVE TARIFF LEAGUE New. York, February 16, 1925. fornia [Mr. SHORTRIDGE], the senior Senator from New York [Mr. WADSWORTH], the senior Senator fi·om Alabama [::.Ur. Hon. F. M'cL. Sru:uo~S', Ul\TDERwoonJ, the senior Senator from Massachusetts [lli. United States Senate, Washington, D. 0. WALSH], thC' junior Senator from Utah [Mr. Kma], the junior Ho~ORED Srn : The members of tHe American Protecti-ve Tariff League believe that you would not willingly do anyone an injustice, Senator from South Garolina [:Mr. DIALJ, and tfie senior Sena tor from Tennessee [.M:r. SHIELDs] as memtlers of' the committee and feel sure . that you will have no hesftancy in correcting your re on the part of tbe Senate to superintend· the funeral of the marks as reportel'l in the CoNGREssroNA.Ii REcoRD of Februar~ 12, in deceased Senator. which you_ place· responsibility upon the Protective TIIriti League in :Mr. McKINLEY. 1\Ir; Pt•esident, as a further mark of re the following language : spect to the memory of the deceased Sennto1·, I move that the· " I say tb.e propagand:L haa been. op·en and brazen. A few weeks ago, Senate do now adjourn. · on January 30, I read in the Senate an editorial from the Washing The motion was unanimously agreed and· (at 12 o'clock ton Post commenting upon a certain letter alleged to have been some to; 30 minutes- p. m.) the- Senate adjourned, the adjournment what extensively distl'ibuted among certain classe-s in the countr'y ad· ana being, under- the order heretofore made, until to-morrow, Thurs vocztlng the appointment by the PreshJent to membership upon this day, Februa-ry at o'clock a.m. commission of Demo-crats known to favor a- protective tariff. That 26, 1925, n letter was referred to- in terms of unqualifted condemnation in the editorial wfilch I read' from the Washington Post. The editorial dld not contain the lE"ttP.r referred to. I happened to have in my possession H0USE OF R-EPRESENTATIVES a copy of the letter that had ~n given to me. It wa~t a letter issued WEDNESDAY, Feb1"U.ary ~5r 1925 by some branch organization of the Protective Taritr League or some organization in some way associated with the· Pr